Lea C. Matthews, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Attending Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BS (Health Management Systems)
Duquesne University, 2014.
MD (Medicine)
Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, 2018.
Permanent linkBS (Health Management Systems)
Duquesne University, 2014.
MD (Medicine)
Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, 2018.
Selected Publications
Matthews LC, Hunter S: Use of CT imaging to guide difficult airway management. SPA-AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology 2023, Austin, TX April 2023 Notes: Poster Presentation.Matthews, L, Petrini, L: Fetal Surgery: EXIT Procedure, Myelomeningocele Repair. SPA Question of the Week - https://pedsanesthesia.org/question-of-the-week/question-of-the-week- 143/ 2023.
Matthews LC, Quintero D, McComb JJ: Breaking down communication silos with the electronic medical record to reduce unnecessary type & screen orders in pre- admission testing. ASA Annual Meeting 2021, San Diego, CA October 2021 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Matthews LC, Archie C, Tiangco N, McCaughan S: The use of Botulinum Toxin A for complex abdominal wall closure. Anesthesiology Annual Meeting 2020, (Virtual) October 2020 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Matthews LC, Valenzuela F, Livelsberger J: Peripheral nerve blocks in patients with thrombocytopenia: How low can you go? 45th Annual Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Meeting, (Virtual) April 2020 Notes: Poster Presentation.
McComb J, Gokcen E, Sheffield B, Matthews L, Goldberg A: Reducing unnecessary preoperative type and screens by leveraging the electronic medical record to breakdown communication silos between surgeons and the preadmission testing department. 15th Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit, The Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement Meeting, Orlando, FL March 2020 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Turpen, T., Matthews, L., & Guney, S.: Beneath the surface of talking about physicians: A statistical model of language for patient experience comments. Patient Experience Journal 6(2): Article 10, 2019.
Burrows AM, Durham EL, Matthews LC, Smith TD, Parr LA: Human faces are slower than chimpanzee faces. PLoS ONE 9(10): e110523, October 2014.
Burrows AM, Durham EL, Matthews LC, Smith TD, Parr LA : Of mice, monkeys, and men: Physiological and morphological evidence for evolutionary divergence of function in mimetic musculature. The Anatomical Record 297(7): 1250-1261, July 2014.
Burrows Am, Durham EL, Matthews LC, Smith TC, Parr LA: Did speech slow down the human face? Humans have a high proportion of slow myosin fibers compared to other primates. American Association of Anatomists Annual Meeting 2014, San Diego, CA April 2014 Notes: Poster Presentation.